@graphite it is true that Macdonalds encourage crime. I can smell people smoking weed in the car park as I pass by and have witnessed several car accidents. The car park is littered with rubbish and those little silver gas cylinders. There's always people asking for money and all the school kids flock there after school.. something really needs to be done about it
@meggie The local high-scale mall near me wouldn't renew McDonald's lease because it wanted more upscale restaurants, apparently. The McDonald's did great business but the mall managers simply didn't want them there anymore, from what I've heard.
One of our two locations is rumored to be closing in the nezt two months if they don't get out of the red. My older step sister, a retired head prosecutor for eight counties, but not a DA, goes to church with the franchise owner, he has had to refinance his loans in order to make payroll as he can no longer afford the $15.50 an hour pay corporate imposed to keep workers during the pandemic, wages he cannot lower because they'd all walk.